pixelentity said
We, as many, also include custom made jquery plugin that are sold as separate commercial items and a 100% GPL theme would extend the license to the bundled plugin code.

Triggers another question. Is it possible to include MIT licensed plugins with GPL themes without conflicting GPL’s freedom? It looks like an 100% GPL theme will require an author to have multiple skills to comeup with own set of plugins (or use only GPL based 3rd party plugins, while MIT is the vast majority available for front end scripts)

Offtopic, I remember an MIT licensed javascript plugin on github having a single line license info on line 1 (repeating exact words here):

Licence: MIT bla bla

The script was a gem, and the license info added much respect towards the author

maguiar01 said
As the copyright owner, an author can distribute his theme under a commercial license and under GPL.

So i got one (probably stupid) question:

What stops anyone on TF from releasing their themes “full” GPL today ?
Why an author can’t do a deal like “buy a license on envato and i will send you a GPL version of my theme” ?

if you are an exclusive author you need to release your items only on envato marketplaces. No other option, paid or free, is possible. So the only way to release an item (theme or other) is under the marketplace license.

VF said
Triggers another question. Is it possible to include MIT licensed plugins with GPL themes without conflicting GPL’s freedom? It looks like an 100% GPL theme will require an author to have multiple skills to comeup with own set of plugins (or use only GPL based 3rd party plugins, while MIT is the vast majority available for front end scripts)

When TF talks about allowing “GPL-licensed” themes, I hope they’re talking about any open-source license that is compatible with the GPL. Even if they’re not, you can still use other scripts and libraries that are compatible with the GPL.

VF said
Triggers another question. Is it possible to include MIT licensed plugins with GPL themes without conflicting GPL’s freedom? It looks like an 100% GPL theme will require an author to have multiple skills to comeup with own set of plugins (or use only GPL based 3rd party plugins, while MIT is the vast majority available for front end scripts)

When TF talks about allowing “GPL-licensed” themes, I hope they’re talking about any open-source license that is compatible with the GPL. Even if they’re not, you can still use other scripts and libraries that are compatible with the GPL.

Thanks, that clarifies.

Again, there is a part where MIT gives freedom to close the distribution on derivative works while GPL makes sure distribution isn’t restricted. Hope this part doesn’t targetted as violating spirit

VF said
Again, there is a part where MIT gives freedom to close the distribution on derivative works while GPL makes sure distribution isn’t restricted. Hope this part doesn’t targetted as violating spirit

From the missing copyleft-restriction in MIT follows, that you can use MIT-licensed stuff inside a GPL-project but not GPL inside MIT.
So you can’t licence your WordPress theme under MIT for example.

The licence of the project itself always has to stay GPL but may include MIT-licensed parts.

VF said
Again, there is a part where MIT gives freedom to close the distribution on derivative works while GPL makes sure distribution isn’t restricted. Hope this part doesn’t targetted as violating spirit

haha good catch! Any excuse is good to violate the spirit of something, which is why I prefer to see this from a legal angle

Currently, Matt’s requests aren’t so far fetched and I’m glad Envato is putting this to vote.